Holocaust and Genocide: From the Past to the Present

Symposium Admission: $15 YIVO members & students: $10

This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention. This symposium will address issues including the contentious history of the adoption of the Genocide Convention by the U.S.; the shifting role of the Holocaust in public and political discourse, including the question of the Holocaust’s uniqueness, and; what the past has failed to teach us about the possibilities of prevention and intervention in acts of genocide.

Program:

Chair:  Jonathan Brent, YIVO Executive Director and CEO

Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University)
“Raphael Lemkin, Civil Rights, and the Genocide Convention”

Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union)
“The Holocaust:  History and Memory after 75 Years”

Panel and Open Discussion:

Jonathan Brent and Professors Rabinbach and Grossmann with Berel Lang (State University of New York at Albany) and Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Study)